Music

An elegant album, stripped bare to its poetry…

Low whistle, hornpipes, kaval (this is a traditional Balkan flute) and practice chanter (and this a part of the Scots bagpiping set-up) are just a few of the instruments employed by Fraser Fifield on Stereocanto.…

Mysterious and opulent in its songs, The Sky and the Caspian Sea is a début album that exudes confidence and poise and promises the start of a great future.…

Hiphop fans make a virtue of telling it how it is…

Underground film meets underground music… Iranian-style…

It’s a dance record galvanized for the groove; it’s a John Pirozzi film that takes a serious responsibility for the band’s material and details commitment to Cambodian heroes.…

‘It's me…

*Emmanuel Jal*, celebrity rapper and ex-child soldier, talks to *Rowenna Davis* about why he is championing African education.…

An album with a range of references stretching from a lazy Delta blues to the yearnings of Urdu devotionals…

Guitars blast, synthesizers go mad and a group of gospel harmonizers strain for the heavens as sitar strings twang…